Working On My Shop With Plans and Hopes and Dreams

Some of you probably know that I have mostly been carving in my shop nearly every weekend for almost a year, now. My shop was filling up with all of my woodcarvings and they were stacked everywhere. I believe my shop was getting jealous of my carvings. I don’t want to just do woodcarvings; I want to do all kinds of woodworking so I’ve been working on my shop for the last few weekends and I think that I am going to stay on it for a while until I get my shop in a little better order...

In this part of this blog I will show the preparation of what I call a wall tool cupboard. I would call this a carpentry project. In building this cupboard I am interested mainly in building something useful for the shop that is purely utilitarian in nature. With that in mind it was not built as though I were working on a piece of furniture. It’s a useful carpentry project – nothing more.
In the picture above on the right hand you can see the door entrance to the kitchen of...

I’m still working on my shop. Unfortunately I’ve had a few interruptions with a honey do list and some work on the house as well as my work for the plant. So it’s moving a little slower than I had hoped. This is not meant to be anything other than a carpentry project and as you can see there is nothing pretentious about it. Its purely functional and practical in nature.
In selecting the tools that I would place here I suppose two of the most important criteria were items ...